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China's National Tea Museum Pictures Typed China’s National Tea Museum Pictures Typed Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………p3 The Initial Stage of Chinese Tea………………………………………………………………………………………………………p6 Tang Dynasty………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….p11 Song Dynasty………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….p15 Yuan & Ming Dynasty……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..p20 Qing Dynasty………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….p22 Processing & Production…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………p27 Development………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….p45 Introduction China National Tea Museum I visited China’s National Tea Museum in Hangzhou in June of 2014. While I was excited to visit the plantation, I wasn’t too excited to read through the museum at that day. So instead of spending all of my day reading each in everything in the museum, I decided to take pictures of all the descriptions and read them later. When I returned to the US, I realized that these images could be a very good resource for tea people who haven’t been to this museum. Unfortunately some of the photos were difficult to read, so I decided to work with the photos, to a point where I could read them and then type them. That is what led to all of this. This entire document contains images of the descriptions that are within China’s National Tea Museum in Hangzhou. While most of these images are mine, all of these images were taken within China’s National Tea Museum and all the information is theirs. I am not sure if I got all the descriptions within the Museum, but I did get a lot of them! This document is in the order of which I took the images, so some of it maybe in the actual order of the museum. Introduction Tea is one of China’s major contributions to mankind and world civilizations. China is the origin of the tea tree and the first country to discover and use tea. The tea industry and tea culture started from the drinking of tea. Over thousands of years, as the custom of drinking tea penetrated more and more deeply into Chinese people’s lives, tea culture has been steadily enriched and developed as part of the age- old national culture and a gem of traditional oriental culture. Today as a worldwide beverage, tea serves an s tie of deep affection between the Chinese and people in other parts of the world. Wild arborous tea plant in Ailao Mountain Located in Ailao mountain nature reserve that is 2450 meters above sea level, it is of arbor type, 25.6 meters high, with the base of the trunk 1.2 meters long. And is one of the ancient wild arborous tea plants. *Picture of big tree** Wild Arborous tea plant in Bada, Xishuangbana. Located in Dahei Mountain virgin forest in Hesong, Bada Township, Menhai County, Yunnan, it is of arbor type 23.6 Meters high, with the base of the trunk 1 meters long, Ancient Wild Arbor Tea Plant There is a tree from Bangwai Located in the village of Bangwai, Fudong Township, Lancang County, Yunnan 1990 Meters above sea level…..and is also a transitional one between the wild type and cultivation type. 11.8 Meters high 1.14 Meter Base. Arborous tea plane of cultivation type in Nannao Mountain Nannao Mountain, Gelang River Township, Menghai County Yunnan. 5.5 Meters High The Initial Stage of Chinese Tea After being founded utilized in the ancient age, tea was used as medicine, food, and beverage. Initially tea was drunk only in the ancient Ba-Shu in southwest china. As economic and cultural communication intensified, the practice of drinking tea spread to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Central Plains. Bud of Chinese tea culture appeared during the Wei, Jin, and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, when economic and cultural communications and fusion between the north and the south helped tea drinking to spread further northward. The main consumers of tea at the time were the upper class aristocrats and scholars, who viewed tea drinking as a spiritually elegant enjoyment. Chinese tea culture had displayed its distinctive charm by then. The Use of tea and its development has been a long process, during which tea was used as medicine, food, and beverage. Fa Jiang Pian, a dictionary written by Sima Xiangru of the Western Han Dynasty, includes chuancha as the name of a drug, which refers to nothing else but the tea. In the story told in Yi Yuan, a book of the southern Dynasties, wife of Chen Wu, a man from Shan County, was fond of tea and would offer tea to the deceased in an ancient grave near her house whenever she was gin to drink tea. The entry “jia, bitter tea” in the ninth volume (Trees) in Annotation to Erh Yah by Guo Pu (276-324) of Eastern Jin Dynasty says, “The tree is in the size of the gardenia. Its leaves never fall in winter, and can be made into soup. Leaves picked earlier are called cha, and those picked later are called, Ming. They are also known as chuan and are called kutu in Sichuan. The drinking of tea originated in the ancient Ba-Shu (the present Sichuan) in southwest China. After the First Emperor of Qin unified China, economic and cultural communication helped to introduce the tea to the Central Plains. The generally accepted name cha was preceded by such ancient names as jia, chuan, she, ming and tu, most of which derived from the dialect of ancient Ba-Shu According to Cha Pu by Mao Wenxi of the Five Dynasties and other historical records. Wu Lizhen of the Western Han Dynasty planted seven tea trees at Shangqing Peak on Mount Meng in Sichuan. Later there was a saying to the effect that the seven trees were immortal, and that anyone taking four tales of their leaves would immediately be immortalized. Tea as a tribute: In the ancient Ba-Shu, the tea had begun to be used and presented to court as tribute no later than the Zhou Dynasty. As recorded in the Chronicles of Hua Yang Guy by Chang Qu of the Jin Shang Dynast, King Wu (of Zhou) enforced members of his clan in Ba and made them dukes. Tribute to the court from the region included mulberry, silkworm, hemp, ramie, fish, salt, bronze, iron, vermillion, lacquer, tea, honey, turtle, etc. Prized fruits included the litchi the tea, and so on. Tea as a commodity: In the Han Dynasty, when the drinking of tea was widespread in the Ba-Shu region, tea became a commodity in circulation. Ton Yue by Wang Bao of the Western Han Dynasty includes the provision of “brewing tea and preparing tea sets” and “buying tea in Wuyang” As recorded in Guang Ya by Zhang Yi of Wei in the Three Kingdoms Period, “In Jing and Ba, tea was picked and made into cakes. If the leaves were old, they would be mixed with rice gruel. For making tea, a tea cake would be baked until it turned red, then ground into powder which was put in a porcelain vessel and steeped in hot water together with shallot, ginger, and tangerine peel” The method of making tea cakes and brewing tea appeared in the Three Kingdoms Period. The making of tea cakes remained dominant till the Tang and Song Dynasties, except that the processing technique and brewing method were more refined. The practice of drinking tea went downstream along the Yangtze and took root in its middle and lower reaches. The early Han Dynasty saw Changsha, Hunan and Chaling County under its jurisdiction becoming centers of tea production. Tuling County was established in 106 B.C. (The fifth year of Yuangeng period in the Western Han Dynasty.) The Han tomb in Mawangdui, Changsha, excavated in 1973, was found to contain a seal with the word Tuling, bamboo slips and wooden tablets bearing the term “tea box”, and tea packing. An intact celadon urn unearthed from a late eastern han tomb in Huzhou, another center of ta production, bears a character for “tea” carved on its shoulder, which suggests that tea had appeared in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze by that time. Located by the Taihu Lake in the lower reach of the river, Huzhou used to produce a famous tea called the Yangxian Tea. As recorded in “’The History of Wu” in the History of the three kingdoms, Sun Hao, the last monarch of Wu, was a heavy drinker and frequently gave banquets to his ministers. He secretly gave tea to Wei Yao, a senior minister, allowing him to drink it instead of liquor. Chinese tea culture came into being during the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties, when economic and cultural communication and fusion between the north and the south promoted the practice of drinking tea to spread northward. The main consumers of tea were the upper- class aristocrats and Scholars, who wrote many poems and odes about tea and advocated the use of tea to cultivate frugality. Tang Dynasty The Incipience of Tea Culture in the Tang Dynasty The powerful Tang Dynasty boasted a strong economy and thriving culture. It was a heyday of ancient Chinese tea culture, which, according to historians, came in vogue in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. Tea became part of everyday life as a major commodity. There appeared many famous varieties, some of which were selected as tribute to the emperor. It was in this period that taxes began to be levied on tea, and the first books on tea were written. The period saw the incipience of customs and techniques of drinking tea, which would have a far-reaching impact on later generations. In particular, the appearance of The Tea Classic by Lu Yu was an epoch-making event in the development of Chinese Tea Culture.
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